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' D. C. MONTGOMERY.

REIN HOLDER. No. 276,062. Patented Apr. 17,1883.

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35 designed to receive between them the reins,

UNITED STATES PATENT Orrioae DAVID C. MONTGOMERY, OF ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI.

REiN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,062, dated April 17, 1883.

Application filed January 4,1883. (No model.)

being bad to the accompanying drawings, and

to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form apartof this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a face view of my device. Fig.2 is a rear view of the same, and Fig. 3 is vertical sectional view.

This invention has relation to rein-holders and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described, and'particularly pointed out in the claim appended.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the dash-board of a buggy or wagon,

to which the-base-plate B of the rein-holder upper end of the base-plate are formed lateral guide-lugs L, which extend upward, and are when the latter are passed over the upper end of the base-plate.

N represents a lateral bent arm, which is formed on the lower portion of the base-plate,-

and extends laterally and parallel to the plane of said plate, as indicated at m. The leverplate H is broad, andextends from the upper edge, 19, of the base-plate, over which the reins are passed, to the bent arm N, at the lower portion of the base-plate. The inner surface of the portion at of the arm N is corrugated, and the lower end of the lever-plate is also corrugated or roughened, as indicated at s,so that when the reins are passed downward between said lever-plate and the arm N they will be clamped between these two portions of the rein-holder. Around the pivot-bar c, which connects the lever-plate to the base-plate, is arranged a spiral spring, 2, the extended ends of which respectively engage the baseplate and lever-plate in such a manner as to press the lower portion of the lever-plate against the arm N' with some force. When the lower portion of the lever-plate is moved away from the arm N to receive the reins the upper portion of said plate is moved away from the upper edge, p, of the base-plate. Therefore when the reins are in the rein-holder the upper end of the lever-plate is always separated from the edge 1), so that when the reins are pulled or jerked by the movements of the horse the forcible bearing of said reins against the upper end of the lever-plate will cause the lower end of said plate to compress them forcibly against the corrugated arm N.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,-

A rein-holder consisting of a base-plate, B, having guide-lugs L at its upper end and a lateral bent arm, N, near its lower end, thelever-plate H, pivoted to the base-plate, and extending from the lugs of the latter to its bent arm N, and upward from said lugs L to the upper edge, 12, of the base-plate, and the spring 2 around the pivot-bar of the lever-plate, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID C. MONTGOMERY.

Witnesses:

T. G. AMES,

VAN B. WILKESON. 

